I got permission from the OC Creator to submit this to Stick Nodes!

Original Description:
"So, this is some art I made today of an Autobot Minibot OC I made 4 years ago named Slashmark, using the name of the RID 2015 Stunticons. Really love how she turned out! And I hope you like it.
Basically, she’s one of the Autobot Minibots, as both a Spy and a Scout, using her unique alt mode of a black kitten (yes, a kitten) to help sneak around and avoid being detected. She’s also the little sister to the other Minibots (like she’s basically a hyper little kid). And she’s a lovable, hyper, energetic little scamp who can be rather annoying due to her high-pitched voice and energetic nature. Also she chose her alt mode mostly because she thinks cats are adorable and wanted one as her earth mode. Also she can mass shift so she can be tiny in beast mode, or stay her regular robot mode size when transforming into her beast mode."

Turns out, that Megalosaurus Studios, Slashmark's creator, decided to also put her in different Transformers continuities like G1, Beast Wars and Animated. For the sake of clarification and design purposes, this version of Slashmark is her Beast Wars counterpart as a Maximal instead of Autobot. I guess she's Cheetor's little sister in this universe, but her personality would be the same as in the G1 universe. Also, for size consistency, she's 4 feet tall in the Beast Wars Universe as her default size, which would make her dog-sized in beast mode without mass-shifting, but she can still shrink to the size of a normal kitten. I guess you can have a normal sized cat or a dog-sized one.

This was the very first custom Stick Node Figure I created, after messing around with Fire Convoy's Cheetor stick node. Since I was in the mood for robot cats, I found out that Megalosaurus Studios on Reddit and TFW2005 drew her most recent design in 2024. I was trying to visualize the transformation and the beast mode, as the original artist didn't draw her kitten mode. The first version of this stick node was drawn on a train back home. Since then, there have been several alterations made, mainly with proportions. Her oldest incarnation was too tall and her limbs were too long, making her look like a fully grown cat or a panther cub. After shortening her limbs and looking at some real cats, she looked almost like the version you see here. Some design elements of Slashmark would later be recycled when creating Terra810's BW Arcee, mainly the front cat legs. As for the final version, I incorporated gradient shading on the robot parts and fixed the proportions of the cat head, as it was a bit too weird.

Also included along the main Slashmark (Black cat) is her Shattered Glass counterpart (Orange cat). This SG color was also created by Megalosaurus Studios, and her fur color had to be darkened to avoid comparisons to a famous orange tabby cat. In the movieclip, you'll find the original Slashmark on the first page, SG Slashmark on the second page, the non-transforming beast modes on the third one and the remaining frames of the movieclip are the transformation.

Thank you to Megalosaurus Studios for allowing me to post his OC here! Original post here (includes early versions of this stick node in the comments) https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/slashmark-autobot-oc.1270096/

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